The solution

Youth Climate Panel 
(case study 1)

We launched a communications s campaign via social media, press releases and  direct contact with schools and youth organisations in the county in August 2019 and in October 2019 had set up the youth climate panel which has 40 members aged 16 – 25:

• These positions will be held for a maximum of 2 years.
• Members will advocate for Gloucestershire’s young people, representing thoughts and ambitions of the county’s younger generation.
• Where possible we have targeted a diverse membership, as representative as possible of the demographics of young people in the county. This includes choosing remembers proportionality to the demographic characteristics of the population of the areas of the county that they come from.

The panel represents the young people of the county and in being a member gives them the opportunity to have their say on:

• what the county council will do to act on climate change;
• how we can encourage people to behave in a more sustainable way; and
• our climate change policy and action plan.

The panel supports future proofing of our climate planning for the county:

• The panel will provide the opportunity for young people to have a voice on climate change issues, giving members the platform to influence and have their say on how we respond to the climate emergency together.
• The Youth Climate Panel will ultimately help to bring about a low carbon, resilient and attractive Gloucestershire where all people are proud to live and work. With the county aiming to be net zero by 2045.
• They will also help Gloucestershire County Council fulfil its’ climate commitments; working with partners to collectively reduce Gloucestershire’s carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2030, when compared to 2005, and secure a carbon neutral (net zero) county by 2045.

Funding for trees
(case study 2)

LNP partners worked together to submit bids to two different tree funds – the Woodland Trust Emergency Tree Fund and the Local Authority Treescapes fund. Both were successful, with a total of £700,000 to be spent on unblocking barriers to tree planting and woodland creation.